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RSVP to these three VIP vlogs and check out my experience of the evening direct from the Disney FanDaze Inaugural Party in Paris!

Unfortunately, Kuzco becomes a Llama again, and even though I spend some time taking selfies with Daisy (who seems to enjoy taking them as much as I do?), I do get to chat with Jim Hawkins about planets and his mom’s restaurant… that kind of thing.

Some might wonder if it’s inhumane for so many people to chase one chipmunk in the video below. (Clarisse doesn’t seem to mind.) And if Disney villain Yzma’s anti-aging routine is so bad, how can she still make these dance moves?! What makes my weekend though is making some new friends, despite some old ones appearing to dodge us as the Paris sun sets!

Finally, and at 2:00 am Disneyland Paris time, an up-close view of almost every rare Disney character imaginable at the Inaugural Party Farewell Parade in the heart of Walt Disney Studios park. Even the most elusive of heroes and villains, like Li Shang and Shan Yu, Robin Hood and Prince John, Hercules and Hades plus Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox jostle each other along the parade route.

If ever you venture straight down Disneyland Paris Main Street and head over the moat into Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant early morning during Extra Magic Time you’ll experience a burst of color.

Not only do the real stained-glass windows seem to give off a Technicolor experience from “Sleeping Beauty,” but during this quieter time, you could be totally enveloped only by the music from the 1959 masterpiece!

Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant

Fortunately, I’m inviting you to take a walking tour with me, picking out all those details in stone and bronze… faces and fairy dust lit ballgowns, up inside what many say is their favorite Disney theme park castle!

Spring colors appear in high-end boutique windows and also on fashion adorning the denizens of New Bond Street.

A denizen of New Bond Street admires spring flower bulbs

Spring flower bulbs on New Bond Street

Chanel on New Bond Street

And in this video, you’ll get a further burst of everything on the color spectrum yourself when I take you inside Sotheby’s Diamonds salon on the same street to see a 192.34-carat white diamond described as “blazing with brilliant firework-like display” as it turns in the light.

Earlier this month I went on a walking tour of London like you never have or will experience again with a bunch of YouTubers!
I recorded 16 weird, sometimes creepy but mostly beautiful of the unusual sight and sound experiences along the way during “Lumiere London”. And I added my own tongue in cheek take on each of them.
So, starting with number one, let’s go!

1. Leicester Square, Lantern Company with Jo Pocock: “Nightlife,”

1. Leicester Square, Lantern Company with Jo Pocock: “Nightlife”

2. Chinatown, Lantern Company with Jo Pocock: “Flamingo Flyway,”

2. Chinatown, Lantern Company with Jo Pocock: “Flamingo Flyway,”

3. Trafalgar Square, Collectif Coin: “Child Hood,”

3. Trafalgar Square, Collectif Coin: “Child Hood”

Don’t forget to take in all the sounds too in this full ten minute video above.

It’s my annual review of the London Christmas store windows and Christmas lights in a double length, double decker filled vlog! I choose my three favorite store windows and wind up in front of a brass band at Piccadilly Circus, having covered Harrods, Selfridges, John Lewis and more.

Just as iconic as travelling down the River Nile by boat, being on a red London double-decker bus going down Oxford Street.

These 2017 Selfridges Christmas windows remind me of an old film set in wartime Britain like “Bedknobs and Broomsticks”. Walking past these windows is like watching a really British Christmas parade march past.

Ralph Lauren London Christmas Teddy Bears

So I hope you enjoy my take on this year’s Christmas store windows all around London in my annual vlog (below)!

Starbucks break recording my London Christmas lights vlog

And (name misspelled of course!) at my fave Starbucks on Vigo Street with a Toffee Nut Latte, taking a break from recording!